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Extension apiculturist Elina Niño examines a frame in the apiary of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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California Honey Festival: Show Me the Honey!

May 1, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Show me the honey! You'll see scores of honey varietals at the third annual California Honey Festival on Saturday, May 4. And you can sample the honey, ask questions, and purchase it--the soul of a field of flowers.
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Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño opens a hive at the first California Honey Festival, launched in 2017. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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California Honey Festival: Saturday, May 4

May 1, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Hear that buzz? The third annual California Honey Festival, sponsored by the City of Woodland and the UC Davis Honey and Pollination Center, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 4 in downtown Woodland. It's free and family friendly.
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A honey bee packing blue pollen from the tower of jewels, Echium wildpretii. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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A Honey of a Festival on Saturday, May 4

April 29, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
In the honey bee colony, you'll see a workforce like no other. You'll see nurse maids, nannies, royal attendants, builders, architects, foragers, dancers, honey tenders, pollen packers, propolis or "glue" specialists, air conditioning and heating technicians, guards, and undertakers.
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Doctoral candidate Brendon Boudinot answers questions about insects in the Bug Doctor booth at Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Bug Doctor Is In! Ask Me a Question!

April 25, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The doctor is in. The Bug Doctor, that is. If you attended the 105th annual UC Davis Picnic Day and headed for Briggs Hall, home of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, you encountered a booth lettered with "Bug Doctor" and a sign that read: Ask Me About Insects.
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At a recent TODS Day, UC Davis employee Sarah Robertson supervises her children, Isla and Cameron, as they use a catch-and-release device to observe bees up close. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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'Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work' on Thursday, April 25

April 24, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The Bohart Museum of Entomology and the Hagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, both part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will participate in the UC Davis Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work (TODS) Day on Thursday, April 25.
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Logan Loss, 6, of Rocklin talks about scorpions to Bohart associate and scorpion scientist Wade Spencer. The kindergarten student is an avid scorpion enthusiast. Also pictured are members of the Vacaville Brownie Girl Scout Troop (from left) Jayda Navarette, Keira Yu and Kendl Macklin, front. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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It Was a Scorpion Kind of Day at the Bohart Museum of Entomology

April 23, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Little Logan Loss of Rocklin is only 6 but already he knows more about scorpions than many, if not most, adults do. Logan, a visitor at the Bohart Museum of Entomology's recent open house on spiders and other arachnids, wowed the crowd with his knowledge of scorpions.
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Brownie Girl Scouts (from left) Jayda Navarette, Kendl Mackin and Keira Yu of Vacaville Troop 30477 react to the spider sensory activity. At right is postdoctoral fellow Vera Opatova of the Jason Bond lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Professor Jason Bond: 'A Spider Is Always Watching You!'

April 22, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Spiders are everywhere. You're never too far away from a spider; a spider is always watching you," Professor Jason Bond told the crowd at his town-hall presentation at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house on arachnids.
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Capriana in her bee suit, surrounded by bees
California 4-H Grown: Article

My 4-H experience helped me in the college application process

April 22, 2019
By Suzanne Morikawa
College applications and college scholarships all are looking for a good essay, an interesting story and a catchy topic. As a 4-Her who was has been active for 9 years in El Sereno's beekeeping project, I had lots of options to create a buzz with.
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Bruce Hammock, UC Davis distinguished professor and co-founder of EicOsis and Cindy McReynolds, an EicOsis project manager and UC Davis doctoral student. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Davis-Based Company Targeting Chronic Pain Gets Financial Boost

April 22, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
DAVIS--EicOsis LLC, a Davis-based company seeking to block chronic pain in humans and companion animals, has received a $5 million investment from Open Philanthropy to move original research developed in the University of California, Davis laboratory of Professor Bruce Hammock into human clinical tr...
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A male monarch seeking nectar in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Butterfly Summit: Are Butterflies Heralds of Apocalypse?

April 19, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough," wrote the late poet Rabindranath Targoe (1861-1941) of Bengali, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. There may not be "time enough" for some species that are rapidly declining.
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